Comment NSFW: This Sux So Big!!!Woulda typed this even were I not a musician myself (only sing, don't play anything but So Appreciate talents of those who do).FangQ centrifugial bumblepuppy for Most Apt Cartoon just above.

Are we lining in a country with a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" anymore? We find so much to be outraged about in our government, when are we going to affect some change? We certainly don't o it at the ballot box, we annually return 90-95% of our elected representatives to office. How, then, can we complain that our government farks us over? We practically beg them to do it.

Yep. It's not like we have a method of changing laws with the times.and with experiences. Heck, that could make a great profession. We could have people who's job it is to write and update legislation. We could call them. . .wait, I've got this one. . .legislators And since they're writing the laws for us, we could select them by popular vote!

Accept it, flautist fella. America is the greatest country in the world, and if you came here not realizing it's full of retards and bureaucrats that would require forms filled in triplicate and notarized before summoning an ambulance for their bleeding mother, that's your fault.

FTFA "The ney flute could be made from bamboo, is that agricultural?". Actually, yes http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/improvement/lawn-garden/4323342 . The thing is, right then and there the reader should realize that there's more to this story than meets the eye (that, and the story is actually a press release from the alleged victim, no axe to grind there, amirite?). First, misrepresenting bamboo as non-agricultural raises a BIG flag: dude doesn't even know about the woods he's allegedly using, which brings us to the second part: he said they COULD be made of bamboo, not that they were, sounds a LOT like a CYA. There are a lot of woods that WILL get destroyed at the border, regardless of what it's been carved into, by Customs, most of which are because the wood in question is either an endangered species or the wood is harvested in a horribly unsustainable method, like clearcutting rainforests

g4lt:FTFA "The ney flute could be made from bamboo, is that agricultural?". Actually, yes http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/improvement/lawn-garden/4323342 . The thing is, right then and there the reader should realize that there's more to this story than meets the eye (that, and the story is actually a press release from the alleged victim, no axe to grind there, amirite?). First, misrepresenting bamboo as non-agricultural raises a BIG flag: dude doesn't even know about the woods he's allegedly using, which brings us to the second part: he said they COULD be made of bamboo, not that they were, sounds a LOT like a CYA. There are a lot of woods that WILL get destroyed at the border, regardless of what it's been carved into, by Customs, most of which are because the wood in question is either an endangered species or the wood is harvested in a horribly unsustainable method, like clearcutting rainforests

Please, Don't get in the way of the "gubm'nt is eeebil end of story" crowd with a bunch of little things like facts and evidence.

r1niceboy:RussianPooper: pueblonative: It's almost as if you have to consult customs laws when you travel abroad.

Only 4 posts to get to the asshole apologist.

If there's one thing about natives of pueblos, they certainly know how to be submissive to the point of Ned Beatty.

Here's a experiment: go to another country bringing prohibited items and try out the "I didn't know the laws" excuse while asserting your rights and screaming about the fairness of the situation. Then come back and tell us how many turkish prison cell rapes you experienced.

pueblonative:So his ignorance of what is in the laws should be an excuse. Wonder if that's ever been ruled on by the courts?

I agree with that in principle, but how far can you take it when we have tens of thousands of laws? Yeah, laws that are malum in se in nature you don't have an excuse for not knowing, but most of this crap is malum prohibitum. There's no way to know about every obscure law, or when TSA is suddenly to going to interpret the law differently on the spot.